Cricket Festival.
Published 19/04/24
UKS2 have been very lucky today to take part in a cricket festival with South Ribble. We had a lot of fun playing a variety of games and learning new skills.
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Awful Auntie – Theatre Trip
Published 18/04/24
Year 5 have had a fantastic day at Manchester Opera House today watching Awful Auntie. It was a very funny performance and we all enjoyed watching Stella defeat her Aunt Alberta in the end!
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Welcome Back!
Published 15/04/24
Welcome back Silver Birch – I can’t believe we are about to start our Summer Term!
Please look at our class booklet for full information about our upcoming learning this half term.
We have also changed our PE days to Tuesdays and Th
Making our biscuits 🍪
Published 26/03/24
What a fun day we have had in Silver Birch today. Last week, we tested a sample of biscuits and created a design we would like to make ourselves. Today, we brought our creations to life by baking and decorating our biscuits. We also had a go at desig
D&T biscuit testing
Published 19/03/24
This afternoon was very exciting in Silver Birch. We were able to taste-test a sample of different biscuits as research for our D&T topic. We had to judge the biscuits based on the following criteria: taste, appearance and texture. We then used t
Sunflowers 🌻🌻🌻
Published 14/03/24
In art today we studied the painting “Sunflowers” by Vincent Van Gogh. We looked at the different stroke lines and bold colours and had a go at sketching our own in a similar style.
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World Book Day 2024
Published 07/03/24
What a fantastic day we have had today and how lovely it was to see the children all dressed up for this year’s World Book Day 2024.
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Reading Week
Published 05/03/24
Today we launched our 2024 Reading Week. The children were very excited to find their story chair in class this morning:
In assembly, Mrs Dawson has set us all a reading challenge: to read every night this week. Keep a log of all your fa
Writing triage.
Published 29/02/24
Today in Silver Birch we held a “writing triage session”. The children worked in groups of three to really concentrate on each other’s writing. We took it in turns to look at one piece at a time and give each other valuable feedback
PE enrichments
Published 27/02/24
We have been very lucky over the last two weeks to take part in some fantastic PE enrichments. On Thursday, Year 5 pupils enjoyed having Blackburn Rovers visit and teach them some new games and skills in PE. They also did some theory practice and lea
Number Day
Published 02/02/24
We have really enjoyed Number Day today and dressing up. We have taken part in some number dances (The Final Countdown and 5,6,7,8) and had a go at solving some very tricky Sudoku puzzles.
Starry Night
Published 31/01/24
In art we have been studying the life and works fo Vincent Van Gogh. Today we had a go at analysing ‘A Starry Night’ and used oil pastels to have a go at creating sections of the art work. In the next few weeks we will use these ideas to